Normalcy. Remember what that felt like? I’d very nearly forgotten myself. The 4th of July has come and gone and the heart of summer is finally here. But it’s not just any summer. Here in the U.S., it feels like we’re slowly tiptoeing our way out into the light, emerging from a state of pseudo-hibernation....
Hello, World
I remember being terrified. Insidious. That’s what it was, long before I knew what the word meant. At any moment, the childhood I knew and the future I imagined would shatter like the rotten teeth of a dream. This fear that simmered just below the surface, leaving a choice in its wake: give voice to...
The Path Taken
It’s a daunting question: if someone asked you to sum up the past year of your life, what would you say? What have you done, and why? Perhaps more important than any of that: what has it meant? When I had the chance to summarize not one year, but the past 16 years of where...
Triple Crown
Date: 11/7/20 Miles: 12.0Total Miles: 2457.3 One final night came and went, and the stars that had thrust aside the evening clouds dissolved into the gray light of morning. I rolled over and lit the stove for coffee before closing my eyes for a few more minutes thinking how, in spite of this being our...
Rookie Perspective #6: The End
A guest post by Ace Holy shit! We did it. After more than 100 days and 2500 miles we reached the southern terminus of the CDT. Most importantly, Mountain Man did it. I cannot believe he has hiked three of these bad boys. And today, when we touched the obelisk marking the end of the...